Jun 18
How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, And Why
Posted on Sunday, June 18, 2006 in Uncategorized
“So all my childs problems with learning and behavior come from the boredom of being schooled (imprisioned) for the first 12 years of his life?”
Interesting string of comments on this story on Digg, which have lead to many other ideas about this topic. Will post more later.
Bring on the comments
Sunday, June 18 11:36 am
That was an interesting read. Thanks for posting it. It’s a complicated subject that is currently a hot button for me. Our experience with public school has been very unsatisfactory. We are not lazy, uninvolved parents but we’re not part of the PTO either. This past year, our child had a couple of good teacher and a few bad ones. The bad ones are automatons. For many it seems a new career is in order. There is no passion. There’s plenty of hypocrisy. Most of the kids seem screwed up, including my own. I’ve watched his desire to learn and his already dangerously low self worth plummet since entering middle school. He’s forced to physically defend himself on a daily basis and interface with adults who only appear to care when pushed into a corner. This is a gifted kid who aces nearly every test he takes and learns extraordinarly fast. Yet he failed 3 classes this year. FAILED. And we were very involved. it’s a sad state yet the alternatives are either unaffordable or unpractical. Sigh…..
Thursday, June 22 8:32 am
my comments:
we have had so many great teachers for our kids, also had some disappointing times with the school/ed experiments ( like non-phonics reading ) ideas of state of ca. They fail having kids 12 years now they want my gkids earlier for a few more years… NO, thanks.
We home schooled one child for 2 years and when they went back in they were so far ahead it was silly!
We have compared our own education in NY vs our kids in CA and CA ed. Sucks!!!
Our nieces and nephews in NY were and are way ahead of our kids in the ed. area,
it is a sad joke.
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